Thomas James Store, Main Retail Space:
This shows James Store's interior front wall and double-door
main entrance (far right). To the left of the open single door—a later enlargement of
an earlier window—a vertical wood strip marks
where a now-vanished wall stood, dividing the retail space from a
counting room or merchant’s office. This layout (with attic-space)
was the
traditional floor plan of stores for many decades prior. Original building material
here includes
the double doors, their upper hinges and staples for the security bar, all the siding to the
right of the vertical strip, and the ceiling joists. When the James Store was relocated behind
its original site on Main Street in the late 1840s by rolling it on logs—hauled probably by horses, mules, or oxen—its orientation
changed by 180 degrees.